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Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference (review)

Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference... sail · winter 2008 · vol. 20, no. 4 Birgit Däwes. Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference. American Studies Ser. 147. Heidelberg, Ger.: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. ISBN: 9783-8253-5277-6. 478 pp. Katherine Evans, University of Texas at Austin To call Birgit Däwes's almost five-hundred-page study of contemporary Native theater "comprehensive" is to understate the encyclopedic nature of this book. It comes as a welcome addition to a field still working to establish and frame a scholarly conversation in Native American performance studies. Däwes fills gaps in the field with this monograph derived from her 2006 dissertation and provides enough thought-provoking material to fuel several different incarnations of such a conversation. The overarching focus of the book is on identity construction and the "transdifferent" stances taken by Indigenous playwrights and actors as they negotiate "globalized times of shifting national and international borderlines" (7). Defined by scholars at the University of Erlangen at the start of this decade, the concept of "transdifference" seeks to transcend the binary systems that determine identity and acknowledge how individuals often occupy "self-reflexive strategic positions" that combine sometimes contradictory alliances into a multilayered web (9). As Däwes points http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Indian Literatures University of Nebraska Press

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sail · winter 2008 · vol. 20, no. 4 Birgit Däwes. Native North American Theater in a Global Age: Sites of Identity Construction and Transdifference. American Studies Ser. 147. Heidelberg, Ger.: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. ISBN: 9783-8253-5277-6. 478 pp. Katherine Evans, University of Texas at Austin To call Birgit Däwes's almost five-hundred-page study of contemporary Native theater "comprehensive" is to understate the encyclopedic nature of this book. It comes as a welcome addition to a field still working to establish and frame a scholarly conversation in Native American performance studies. Däwes fills gaps in the field with this monograph derived from her 2006 dissertation and provides enough thought-provoking material to fuel several different incarnations of such a conversation. The overarching focus of the book is on identity construction and the "transdifferent" stances taken by Indigenous playwrights and actors as they negotiate "globalized times of shifting national and international borderlines" (7). Defined by scholars at the University of Erlangen at the start of this decade, the concept of "transdifference" seeks to transcend the binary systems that determine identity and acknowledge how individuals often occupy "self-reflexive strategic positions" that combine sometimes contradictory alliances into a multilayered web (9). As Däwes points

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Studies in American Indian LiteraturesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Feb 1, 2008

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